chavez, cesar

Describes the partnership between Dolores Huerta and C?sar Ch?ves, the founding of the National Farm Workers Association, and their combined efforts to improve working conditions for agricultural laborers. Presented in English and Spanish.

Provides an introduction to the life and work of labor and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez, and features articles that discuss his early struggles, the events that led him to organize a union for farm workers, the social and political impact of his work, his strategies and tactics, and his legacy.

Introduces the life and accomplishments of this great Mexican American and labor leader.

Presents a short biography of Cesar Chavez, and chronicles his childhood in Arizona and migration to California during the Great Depression, his encounters with discrimination that led him to organize the National Farm Workers Association in 1962, and his fight against grape growers.

Profiles the March 1966 National Grape Boycott led by Mexican-American activist, Cesar Chavez, in order to protest the conditions that farmworkers had to endure including inadequate housing and wages.

The life and historical significance of the Mexican American labor organizer who demanded rights for migrant farm workers.

Presents a biography of twentieth-century social activist Cesar Chavez who became the leaders of the United Farm Workers and fought for the rights of Mexican laborers in the mid-1900s.

A biography of C?sar Ch?vez, Mexican American farm worker and civil rights activist, and discusses his migrant childhood, the events leading up to him organizing strikes and protests to battle unemployment, and includes his founding of the Farm Workers Association, and more.

A biography of the Mexican American labor leader who worked to improve working conditions for migrant farm workers and to establish the United Farm Workers Union.